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THE SNOWSHOE./ 1 v ' • • • , • ' .. •c;; • . * .. I • *1 •The Snowshoe is intimately connected with the early history of Boundary creek. The ground was first discovered in 1891 by old Dick Thompson, a pioneer among pioneers— since dead. Thompson did not record the claim, and the Snowshoe, like the . Rawhide and many other „ prospects which are now regarded as among the best properties in the camp, did not find a legal ocwner until the spring of ’93, when it was re-staked and recorded by W. A. McDonnell, Bob Denzler, Billy Gibbs and Tom McDonnell at the same time acquiring interests by purchase. Even in 1893, there was no respectable trail leading to Greenwood camp, and well before cold weather set in the prospector would pack in as best he could his winter supplies of flourj bacon and vegetables, while his partners would go into the hills and shoot as many fat bucks as might be required to keep ‘the camp supplied with fresh meat during the winter. These bucks hung up in a. row near the cabin and allowed to freeze stiff, made a familiar feature in the scene of a prospector’s camp in the pioneer days. The first assessment* I' *••••**• ' * • • 9 • * • ' ».* 'was done on the Snowshoe in ’93. with very satisfactory results, and at every assessment since fresh discoveries have resulted. Enough work has now been done to entitle the
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Greenwood Boundary Creek Times
Greenwood, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Oct 24, 1896
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